New Alien Plant Taxa for Italy and Europe: An Update by Carmelo Maria Musarella, Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface, Claudia Angiolini, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Enrico Bajona, Enrico Banfi, Giulio Barone, Nello Biscotti, Daniele Bonsanto, Giacomo Calvia, Salvatore Cambria, Alberto Capuano, Giuseppe Caruso, Alessandro Crisafulli, Emanuele Del Guacchio, Emilio Di Gristina, Gianniantonio Domina, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Simonetta Fascetti, Tiberio Fiaschi, Gabriele Galasso, Francesco Mascia, Giuliana Mazzacuva, Giacomo Mei, Pietro Minissale, Riccardo Motti, Enrico Vito Perrino, Rosa Maria Picone, Lorenzo Pinzani, Lina Podda, Giovanna Potenza, Leonardo Rosati, Adriano Stinca, Gianmarco Tavilla, Clizia Villano, Robert Philipp Wagensommer, Giovanni Spampinato

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Regional Reconstruction of Po River Basin (Italy) Streamflow by Giuseppe Formetta, Glenn Tootle, Matthew Therrell

“…The Po River Basin (PRB) is Italy’s largest river system and provides a vital water supply source for varying demands, including agriculture, energy (hydropower), and water supply. …”
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Educational needs and career development of young epileptologists in Italy by Carlotta Spagnoli, Maddalena Duca, Veronica Pelliccia, Jacopo Lanzone, Silvia Masnada, Daniela Chiarello, Tommaso Lo Barco, Fedele Dono, Bruna Nucera

“…Abstract Objective The Education and Career Task Force of the Young Epilepsy Section‐Italy focuses on educational and career development needs of young Italian epileptologists. …”
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Microbes: Food for the Future by Matilde Ciani, Antonio Lippolis, Federico Fava, Liliana Rodolfi, Alberto Niccolai, Mario R. Tredici

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Future Re-visions by Bianchi, Diana

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Contribution to the floristic knowledge of Lipari and Panarea Islands (Sicilia, Italy) by Giulio Barone, Enrico Bajona, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Laura Cancellieri, Giuseppe Caruso, Fabio Conti, Gianniantonio Domina, Simonetta Fascetti, Jacopo Franzoni, Valentina L. A. Laface, Lorenzo Pinzani, Leonardo Rosati, Anna Scoppola, Adriano Stinca, Agnese Tilia, Alessandro Crisafulli

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A quantitative comparison of smart cities between China and Italy by Alfonso Marino, Paolo Pariso

“…The Smart City concept is a new method of seeing the city of the future. Technological and socioeconomic solutions are required for implementation concerns. …”
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Jurisdiction without conflict? Remarks on non-adverse proceedings in Italy by E. Silvestri

“…It is difficult to foresee whether in the near future more attention will be devotedby Italian legislators to non-contentious jurisdiction so as to lay down rules that are uniformand consistent. …”
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Perspectives on AI adoption in Italy, the role of the Italian AI Strategy by Roberto Saracco

“…The paper is structured in the following sections: “Introduction”, “Trends in AI adoption in the industrial context”, “An AI Policy for Italy: commenting on the Italian AI Strategy”, “Future Scenarios” providing a pessimistic, realistic and optimistic views, “Conclusions”.…”
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The Alien Plant Species Impact in Rice Crops in Northwestern Italy by Ilda Vagge, Gemma Chiaffarelli

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The lichens of the Majella National Park (Central Italy): an annotated checklist by Gabriele Gheza, Luca Di Nuzzo, Chiara Vallese, Renato Benesperi, Elisabetta Bianchi, Valter Di Cecco, Luciano Di Martino, Paolo Giordani, Josef Hafellner, Helmut Mayrhofer, Pier Luigi Nimis, Mauro Tretiach, Juri Nascimbene

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Performance Indicators of Electricity Generation at Country Level—The Case of Italy by Michel Noussan, Roberta Roberto, Benedetto Nastasi

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GPR Investigation at the Archaeological Site of Le Cesine, Lecce, Italy by Emanuele Colica, Antonella Antonazzo, Rita Auriemma, Luigi Coluccia, Ilaria Catapano, Giovanni Ludeno, Sebastiano D’Amico, Raffaele Persico

“…In this contribution, we present some results achieved in the archaeological site of Le Cesine, close to Lecce, in southern Italy. The investigations have been performed in a site close to the Adriatic Sea, only slightly explored up to now, and where the presence of an ancient Roman harbour is alleged on the basis of remains visible above all under the current sea level. …”
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The Increasing Coastal Urbanization in the Mediterranean Environment: The State of the Art in Italy by Daniela Smiraglia, Alice Cavalli, Chiara Giuliani, Francesca Assennato

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Distance Learning in the COVID-19 Era: Perceptions in Southern Italy by Francesco Vincenzo Ferraro, Ferdinando Ivano Ambra, Luigi Aruta, Maria Luisa Iavarone

“…Particularly, in the southern regions of Italy, approximately 20% of the students did not have access to any devices and were excluded from learning, producing a direct risk of increased adolescent delinquency. …”
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Assessment of groundwater contamination risk in an agricultural area in north Italy by Georgios Bartzas, Federico Tinivella, Luca Medini, Dimitra Zaharaki, Kostas Komnitsas

“…In the present study a specific approach is followed, considering the Pesticide DRASTIC and Susceptibility index (SI) methods and a GIS framework, to assess groundwater vulnerability in the agricultural area of Albenga, in north Italy. The results indicate “high” to “very high” vulnerability to groundwater contamination along the coastline and the middle part of the Albenga plain, for almost 49% and 56% of the total study area for Pesticide DRASTIC and SI methods, respectively. …”
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Hydraulic Safety Evaluation and Dynamic Investigations of Baghetto Bridge in Italy by Manuel D’Angelo, Alessandro Menghini, Paolo Borlenghi, Lorenzo Bernardini, Lorenzo Benedetti, Francesco Ballio, Marco Belloli, Carmelo Gentile

“…The present study deals with the structural safety evaluation of a 50-year-old river bridge, called Baghetto Bridge, located in north Italy on the Adda River. Generally speaking, hydraulic processes are the main cause of bridge failure. …”
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Daily Precipitation and Temperature Extremes in Southern Italy (Calabria Region) by Giuseppe Prete, Elenio Avolio, Vincenzo Capparelli, Fabio Lepreti, Vincenzo Carbone

“…These results offer a useful perspective for evaluating the exacerbation of future extreme weather events possibly linked to climate change effects.…”
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A Retrospective Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Evolution in Italy by Anna Fochesato, Giulia Simoni, Federico Reali, Giulia Giordano, Enrico Domenici, Luca Marchetti

“…We then derived additional features of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy not directly retrievable from reported data, such as the estimate of the day zero of infection in late November 2019 and the estimate of the spread of undetected infection. …”
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Recurrence of measles in central Italy: the experience of a hospital in Rome by Andrea Petrucca, Antonella Alari, Styliani Papadopoulou, Crisitina Petrucci, Iolanda Santino

“…These results suggest that there is still an unvaccinated portion of the adult population, who sustain the endemic circulation of measles in Italy. In addition to reach herd immunization on children of 2 years old, catch-up vaccination campaign targeting adult population in Italy and other European countries needs to be implemented to prevent future measles outbreak.…”
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